Software Application Developer

Techgene Solutions - Irving, TX

Full-time - Senior

Irving, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Software Application Developer/Analyst position at Verizon involves working within the SDN Planning group to support the development and deployment of Verizon's SDN architecture and technology. The role requires a self-motivated and innovative software engineering consultant who will collaborate with software engineers, network/system operations staff, and architects to ensure service relevance in a rapidly evolving networking industry. Key responsibilities include proactive technology research, software development, and providing deployable solutions for next-generation network architecture.

Responsibilities

• Interact with software engineers, network/system operations staff, and network/system architects.
• Conduct proactive technology research and software development.
• Develop next-generation network architecture using modern networking technology.
• Provide production deployable solutions for SDN architecture.
• Transform monolithic software systems into microservice-oriented systems.
• Build and deliver mission-critical, 24x7 production quality software systems.

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on software development experience including design, development, debugging, and support.
• Experience with programming languages such as Java, Python, and Go.
• In-depth understanding of scale-out infrastructure, distributed systems, and web services technologies.
• Experience in designing and applying data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented concepts.
• Experience working with ODL, REST, RESTCONF, and RPC services.
• Experience in Linux environments with automation scripting and/or software development (Ansible, Python, Bash).
• Experience with Linux networking & virtualization technologies (KVM, containers).
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyze and implement enhancements to existing applications.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience using source code tracking and version control systems (Stash/GIT/GitLab).
• Experience in an agile development environment.
• Experience in integrating and developing messaging infrastructures (kafka, thrift, proto-buf).
• Experience with open source logging and reporting solutions (Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Grafana, Splunk).
• Database development experience (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, SQL/NoSQL).
• Experience with Open API (REST/RESTCONF/NETCONF) and data modeling (YANG).
• Experience in new technology validation, prototyping, and integration.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401k plan
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development opportunities